Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 03:13:33 -0000 From: sib@tormail.org To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Ports as an unprivileged user Message-ID: <1UJxqn-0004Jp-LC@internal.tormail.org>
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Hi. While looking up how to configure ports to run as a user other than root, I came across a few pages that describe setting some make.conf variables. http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=22368 http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg31323.html Is there any plans or work being done on making this kind of system default? There "probably" won't be any exploits in fetch/libfetch, but there's also no reason to do everything as root. Even just the distfile fetching as a user would be better I think. We could have a dedicated "ports" user that has access to /usr/ports/distfiles or something. Just some security for consideration.
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